FBI invites Muslim scholars to preach
Posted: July 30, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Paul Sperry
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON – Even as the FBI takes new heat over the 9-11 report's revelation that it overlooked ties between a Muslim cleric and two of the al-Qaida hijackers, it is putting agents and new recruits through a Muslim sensitivity program that includes inviting Muslim clerics and leaders to preach about the allegedly peaceful attributes of Islam.
National Arab-American and Muslim leaders have made presentations at an FBI training course on civil rights here, and at the FBI Academy at Quantico, Va., as part of "Enrichment Training Sessions" for new special agents there.
In addition, the imam of a large Manhattan mosque has lectured veteran counterterrorism investigators at the FBI's New York field office about misinterpretation of the meaning of jihad in the Koran, the sacred book of Muslims.
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This is probably old news to some of you, but it's a little concerning to me when taken in the context of the other stories I just linked to.